AudiologyNOW! Tracks

 

Select a maximum of two Tracks that your submission best fits. Attendees will be able to search for sessions based upon these tracks to allow them to quickly locate sessions that may be of interest to them.

• Adults: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction with specific emphasis on diagnosis, assessment, treatment and/or issues particular to adult and geriatric populations including but not limited to aging and cognition, aging and memory, aging and motor skills.

• Amplification and Assistive Devices: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction about Hearing Aids, Assistive Listening Devices, Personal amplifiers, T-coils, Tele-loops, and/or Hearing Aid to assistive device coupling.

• Business Practices: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction dealing with the operational side of all practice settings including but not limited to, staff, profitability, supervision, tele-practice, marketing, practice management, best practices, coding and billing.

• Education: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction about audiology education, precepting, preceptor training, accreditation, virtual clinical training and other topics specific to promoting awareness and recruitment of the profession.

• Electrophysiology: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction related to the elicitation and interpretation of Auditory Evoked Potentials (OAE, ECochG, ABR, MLR, CAEP, MMN, ASSR), Immittance measurements, Somatosensory Evoked Potentials used in Intraoperative monitoring and Neuro-imaging.

• Hearing Loss Prevention: This designator indicates that the courses will provide information or instruction on National guidelines, development of Occupational Hearing Loss Prevention Programs, Hearing Protection, effects of noise exposure and noise induced hearing loss.

• Implantable Hearing Devices: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction on implantable hearing technology including topics related to Cochlear Implants Bone-Anchored Auditory Implants (or Somatogenetic Auditory Implants), and Implantable Middle-Ear Devices.

• Neuro-Audiology: This designator indicates that the courses will offer instruction or information regarding the etiology, identification, testing and/or treatment of tinnitus, hyperacusis, auditory hallucinations, auditory processing disorders, auditory neuropathy/dys-synchrony, auditory cognition and hearing and balance involvement with traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative diseases.

• Pediatrics: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction with specific emphasis on diagnosis, assessment, treatment or concerns for newborns to adolescence.

• Professional Issues: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction on topics concerning ethics, autonomy, legislation, governmental affairs, advocacy, cultural/linguistic issues, humanitarian audiology, global audiology and other topics of concern to the profession as a whole.

• (Re)habilitation and Counseling: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction on the development or improvement of skills that contribute to communication and balance, and/or minimize the impact of, or gaining the acceptance of, hearing loss, tinnitus and/or balance disorders.

• Research: This designator indicates that the course focuses on investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of research observations/findings, offers revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new evidence, or provides practical application of information obtained through research.

• Student focused: This designator indicates that the Student Academy of Audiology has identified this course as a recommended student program for topic and knowledge level.

• Vestibular: This designator indicates that the course will provide information or instruction on the assessment, treatment and research of vestibular disorders including topics related to ocular VEMP, Rotational testing, Post urography, BPPV, VNG interpretation and differential diagnosis.